Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

Dud

good luck donald trump

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/05/25/00/3F63A16C00000578-0-image-m-28_1495670132247.jpg

https://plus.google.com/104275426491742090609

Ten-year-old nabisco offTM:

Here's something funny: when I was ten years old I had a vague admiration for Donald Trump and Lee Iacocca (both very feted at the time) and a downright intense love of Alex P. Keaton from Family Ties, who I didn't understand to be something of a joke. As such, despite having really liked Mondale -- having a woman as a running mate impressed me, probably because of the mother/father dynamic of it -- I was convinced that I wanted to be a Republican and a businessman or lawyer of some sort. In fact, I started a "company" with my friends Brian and Jeff -- we made board games, and hired Tony, the best breakdancer I have ever known, to do the art -- and I was constantly attempting to read the law and economics books in my father's library. Everyone seemed to think this was "cute," though I sort of wish someone had just explained politics to me. In either case, I got over it quickly and went back to wanting to be a writer.

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― nabisco (nabisco), Saturday, June 14, 2003 1:28 PM (fourteen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

https://mesacountydemocrats.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Eric-Trump.jpg

i suppose 'classic' in that he's all a lot of people can think about or talk about and his brain dmamage is so powerful it's infected the world

p bad president and person tho

takes balls to rock that combover day in and out

I can see the blood from the man-flesh on his teeth!

What you lookin' at?
You all a bunch of fuckin' assholes. You know why? You don't have the guts to be what you wanna be?
You need people like me. You need people like me so you can point your fuckin' fingers and say,
"That's the bad guy.
" So... what that make you? Good? You're not good.
You just know how to hide, how to lie. Me, I don't have that problem. Me, I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
So say good night to the bad guy!
Come on. The last time you gonna see a bad guy like this again, let me tell you.
Come on. Make way for the bad guy. There's a bad guy comin' through! Better get outta his way!

You certainly don't, pal, 'cause the good news is - you're fired. The bad news is - you've got, all of you've got just one week to regain your jobs starting with tonight. Starting with tonight's sit. Oh? Have I got your attention now? Good. 'Cause we're adding a little something to this month's sales contest. As you all know, first prize is a Cadillac Eldorado. Anyone wanna see second prize? Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you're fired. Get the picture? You laughing now? You got leads. Mitch and Murray paid good money, get their names to sell them; you can't close the leads you're given, you can't close shit. You ARE shit! Hit the bricks, pal, and beat it 'cause you are going OUT!

Search: "move on her like a bitch"

Destroy: everything else

"Trump never said he had tapes, he just inferred that he did. And it is not intimidating a witness since Comey is telling the truth and knew that any tapes would prove his version of events."

everyone is classic but not everyone should be president

President Don once had a dream
The world held his hand, gave their pledge
So he told them his scheme for a savior machine

Trump lingered last in line for brains
And the one he got was sorta rotten and insane
Small hands (so sad!), a rust-hued clown
Is Trump fast asleep or rockin' out with Three Doors Down?

Murricuns electing Donald Trump: Classic or dud?

http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/55918b77ecad04a3465a0a63/nbc-fires-donald-trump-after-he-calls-mexicans-rapists-and-drug-runners.jpg

haven't thought about this guy for a while. i think he was popular in the 80s?

Overrated

I think he'd make really great hog slurry. You can really tell a lot about a man by the way his pureed corpus fills a trough.

red means 'run, son. numbers add up to nothin'
. . .
shelter me from the putin and the banker
i bankrupted casinos. who the fuck does that?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DC9_baHV0AABiyQ.jpg

#daddy

#dilfsinjocks

wasting his finite reserves of energy there

Cronenbergian

Like a hastily-assembled meat collage.

hard to tell who is more obsessed with him the right or the left.

also the media love/hate thing is so cute. get a room you two.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9b/James_Brown_Take_a_Look_at_Those_Cakes.jpg

“I was the first & only potential GOP candidate to state there will be no cuts to Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid. Huckabee copied me.”

He is only as wicked and hellspawned as the hatred and resentment simmering in the heartland of the most violent nation ever

I think you might need to look into a thing called history if you think this is the most violent nation ever.

you suggest Panama?

the 1997 NYer profile of Trump is start-to-finish amazing but if I had to pick a favorite part it's this https://t.co/reqFZ79eZd pic.twitter.com/Qnwnuiyxqh

— Rosie Gray (@RosieGray) June 23, 2017

hard to tell who is more obsessed with him the right or the left.

libs/"centrists" for sure

it's sobering to realize that Trump is probably the most famous person in human history now

*not adjusted for population inflation

indicative of a deep flaw in our universe

truly he is king of the narcissist personality disorder sufferers

i think jesus still beats him out unless we're only counting contemporaneous fame

Michael Jackson sold a hundred million records

contemporaneous fame. MJ is up there but there are twice as many people on Earth now than there were in 1984.

Donlad Turmp sold a hundred million and one. Sad!

Part of my problem is that I have to do a lot of things myself. It takes so much time. Julio Iglesias is coming to Mar-a-Lago, but I have to call Julio, I have to have lunch with Julio. I have Pavarotti coming. Pavarotti doesn’t perform for anybody. He’s the highest-paid performer in the world. A million dollars a performance. The hardest guy to get. If I call him, he’ll do it—for a huge amount less. Why? Because they like me, they respect me, I don’t know.

I think you might need to look into a thing called history if you think this is the most violent nation ever.

idk Native American genocide plus slavery plus nuclear bomb-dropping... surely we're in the running

probably a million people killed by u.s. in vietnam/laos/cambodia. nobody will ever know how many. not pol pot numbers, but still...

mao would be the world champ though.

it's sobering to realize that Trump is probably the most famous person in human history now

this is a ridiculous statement

Man, if only Trump would tweet that he's bigger than Jesus...

well he's certainly fatter

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DDBB4IMWAAAO6sN.jpg:large

stahp posting this I cant handle it

The relatively-youthful US has certainly done what it could to catch up with the accrued violence of much older nations, I'll grant you that. Maybe Donnie will get us there.

My god, it's made of scrote.

I feel badly for his clothes.

trump wearing a shirt with "trump" on it is like that thing where ppl wear band t-shirts to the same band's concert only 1000x worse

If you blow the image up to its full size (not that I'm recommending you do so) the swollen, boiled-looking bullfrog neck is almost Lovecraftian.

dainty watch worn to make hands look bigger.

Is he going to be remembered as the worst thing ever? Would be deeply ironic if he just got forgotten but then people wouldn't learn from history.
JUst hope his wrongness doesn't get outdone shortly after he dies painfully,choking to death on a shagpile carpet would be fitting, though too redolent of Elvis.
But fingers crossed he doesn't act as a harbinger of things to come.

Just would be so funny if he went to all this bother and wasn't remembered in 20 years time.

"Sorry no parliamentary email access today - we're under cyber attack from Kim Jong Un, (Vladimir) Putin or a kid in his mom's basement or something..."

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DDF8ptxVYAQxha7.jpg

very few things gross me out as much as donald trump's watch band pic.twitter.com/mWOA8sQKi7

— joe mande (@JoeMande) June 25, 2017

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/06/frank-rich-nixon-trump-and-how-a-presidency-ends.html

Jesus, how has he not lost his hand yet?

"Look, having nuclear - my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart - you know, if you're a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the world - it's true! - but when you're a conservative Republican they try - oh, do they do a number - that's why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune - you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we're a little disadvantaged - but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me - it would have been so easy, and it's not as important as these lives are - nuclear is powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what's going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? - but when you look at what's going on with the four prisoners - now it used to be three, now it's four - but when it was three and even now, I would have said it's all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don't, they haven't figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it's gonna take them about another 150 years - but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us."

^ shows nearly doc casino level aptitude

"To the career men & women at DOJ/FBI: your actions and integrity will be unfairly questioned. Be prepared, be strong. Duty. Honor. Country."

saw a beer called alternative facts with a reference to it being the bigliest of IPAs :-/

http://redcollar.ca/impeachment-and-alternative-facts-cans-join-the-red-collar-line-up/

xxxp reggie's quote, if that was a mathematical function it's be piecewise continuous but nowhere differentiable

Gentlemen, what you pansies are are a bunch of starving artistes who live off the kindness of the American government or mommy and daddy. You are angry at your own failings and struggle for survival, mock the GOP and ridicule its members, but when Republicans do it to the Democrats and you, you call out racism and class warfare.

You all yammer on like you do, but let me tell you this here message board is one kooky place with as many double standards as the Grand Old Party, which is why I voted TRUMP!

Someone's gotten into the sock drawer again.

He voted Trump because of ilxor.com??

anger at your own failings is the first step to personal responsibility, my friend

This new poster seems extremely not mad. In fact, I'd venture to suggest he's actually laughing.

Gentlemen, what you pansies are are a bunch of starving artistes who live off the kindness of the American government

Bitch i am ballin' atm.

watch out guys it's a trick, you say 'but i'm doing ok' and then it's like aaaahhhh so ur an elite then and ur like curses curses damn damn damn not again

O snap good lookin out.

pew pew sniped ya

^ best Nas song

source your quotes, sniper

https://newrepublic.com/article/143586/trumps-russian-laundromat-trump-tower-luxury-high-rises-dirty-money-international-crime-syndicate

1/ About that “interview” he gave to three Times reporters I have not stopped thinking. A thread to explain why. https://t.co/dCDqxnQcUT

— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) July 23, 2017

That's such a great thread.

a fun reminder

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article127231799.html

Did the whole interview ever come out, actually?

that jay rosen thread is like watching a duckling wake up to realize mr fox isn't going to be his good buddy after all

Not really. It's stating the obvious but the obvious continues to bear when swathes of Americans still back Trump.

You'd get better, more informed and coherent answers interviewing a monkey. But it goes to show again and again that it does not matter. Trump might as well be an actual monkey, or answer every question with a loud fart: 80+ percent of Republicans still back him.

Good luck USA etc

*to bear repeating

i dunno, he's like "THEY are supposed to be the grownup experts, and WE are the stenographer muses, provoking them to be their best selves! what in the world are we to do once that illusion falls apart and it becomes plain that we are only useful insofar as we further their interests?" like man - that's how it's always been

"THEY are supposed to be the grownup experts

I didn't read it so much this way as "THEY are supposed to have some rudimentary grasp of the subjects that are absolutely central to doing their job and some definable thoughts in their heads, even if they are paper thin, and it is rather shocking that the POTUS's head is full of nothing but mush and putrid garbage."

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/what-its-like-to-get-laid-off-at-the-carrier-plant-trump-said-hed-save

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/08/the-best-quotes-from-trumps-embarrassing-wsj-interview.html

poll

Anyone who takes a pic of you from this angle and posts it is an enemy to you and freedom. pic.twitter.com/9nWZaDUHzK

— Melanie Dione (@beauty_jackson) August 3, 2017

god bless Vic Berger

save that shot forever

Trump's week (8/7 - 8/13/17):

✓Threatened nuclear war.
✓Threatened Venezuela.
✓Thanked Putin for expelling US diplomats.
✓"Many sides" after neo-Nazi murder.

pretty standard week in our nightmarish new hellscape tbh

american carnage! alright, alt-right, assemble in your muscle cars. a landscape of scapegoats is yours for the hurting

Not many presidents could make threatening nuclear war the second worst thing he did in a week.

— Gady Epstein (@gadyepstein) August 12, 2017

Anyone on the right saying anything re:Venezuela? He couldn't have given Maduro a better gift.

Empire City, a documentary film from 1985, is now streaming for rental on Vimeo.

While it was originally meant to contrast 1980s New York with the "golden age" from 1830 - 1930, it provides a rare and fascinating glimpse of the city at the very moment it shifted fully from the socially progressive era and into the Neoliberal Age of radical free-market economics.

Looking back three decades later, we can see the beginning of the glossy, greedy epoch in which we now live.

The film features the creators of today's city, from Donald Trump to Felix Rohatyn and David Rockefeller. In one scene, a young Trump stands with Mayor Ed Koch at a topping-out ceremony for yet another Midtown tower and says, "This mayor has created such a tremendous atmosphere with respect to the city of New York. Eight years ago, I must say, I was embarrassed to say I was in the real estate business in New York. Today, I can honestly say I'm proud of it."

That atmosphere was one that explicitly favored developers over everyday New Yorkers....

http://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/2017/08/empire-city.html

https://vimeo.com/ondemand/empirecity/164152028

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhclkwsU5CQ

In all the clips of the dude from the era he always seems very heavily sedated. He reminds me of:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsz71luPVuE

https://www.statnews.com/2017/08/16/donald-trump-mental-health-congress/

Remember that Trump & his father were sued by the Nixon administration for racial discrimination. Trump was too racist for **Richard Nixon**

— Jon Schwarz (@tinyrevolution) August 16, 2017

plus the last time a republican was president in september the US economy barely survived

imagine donald j. trump as president on the 16th anniversary of 9/11 :)

I'll say this much, there will definitely be people dancing and celebrating in the streets when he's gone.

With their mutated bodies

Dud

dud

I've given him a chance, but I have to conclude he is a dud

gonna go out on a limb here..... dud

i don't want to go quickly and just make a statement for the sake of making a political statement

hey there's duds on all sides people, no need to point the finger

there have been many duds in history and you never hear anyone talking about them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c45X1PHm1g

Trump abruptly ends manufacturing council after CEOs disband strategic and policy forum

You can't quit. I'm firing you first!

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/16/trump-charlottesville-temper-chaos-241721

on trump's anger-as-management and his triggers

“For Trump, there came a moment where he wanted to re-establish that he was going to do what he was going to do,” said the adviser, who knows both the president and members of the staff. “He let his lawyers know that it’s his job to make decisions and their job to figure out how to implement it.”

most underrated shitty thing about Trump is how amazingly lazy he is

— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) August 16, 2017

otm. It's why I can't really see him declare war on North Korea - would bring about a ton of work - but wouldn't be surprised if he fails to raise the debt ceiling.

fake news

https://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21726696-u-turns-self-regard-and-equivocation-are-not-what-it-takes-donald-trump-has-no-grasp-what-it

Mr Trump is not a white supremacist.

I beg to differ.

plus the last time a republican was president in september the US economy barely survived

imagine donald j. trump as president on the 16th anniversary of 9/11 :)

Time for some more moral equivalence and re-education of the people by the big man methinks. He's a good couple of weeks to get all the key facts.

"Other triggers include if someone's wearing a tie, if someone sneezes, if someone breathes "wrong" or if the sky's blue or any other color" pic.twitter.com/ZtVLzGQUsn

— Jon Schwarz (@tinyrevolution) August 17, 2017

has Trump's defence of white-nationalists this week damaged his popularity? I know that his approval ratings are terrible, but I got the impression that this was more due to the general chaos and inability to get anything done? will his comments this week alienate anyone who didn't hate him already? (I guess they damage Trump in that they force colleagues/officials/commentators etc to distance themselves from him making him more isolated, but do they play badly with voters?)

Aside from the hilarious URL the story is great: http://fortune.com/2017/08/15/donald-trump-itrump-trumpet-app/

The owner of Trump Tower, Trump Golf Links, and The Donald J. Trump Signature Collection can’t claim this one as his own: iTrump.

That’s because the trademark resides with a 40-year-old-engineer and amateur musician who created an iPhone app designed to teach people how to play the trumpet. This month, Tom Scharfeld prevailed in his grueling six-year legal fight against Donald Trump. And Scharfeld’s triumph is even more impressive because he succeeded without a lawyer.

Legal experts say it’s no surprise that Trump waged a fierce campaign to capture a name that he said screams DONALD TRUMP. After all, The Trump Organization has affixed the moniker to everything from real estate, vodka and golf courses to an airline, clothing and steaks. Long before Trump embarked on his run for the White House, the tycoon had sued to block upstarts from using the name, and he and his family have recently expanded their marks around the world.

“When you are representing yourself, it is almost impossible to win, so coming out a winner is one of the great long shots," said Harley Lewin, a New York lawyer not involved in the case. “Even if you are bright and perhaps right on the issues, the lack of knowledge of litigation procedure almost dooms you from the start."

Trump’s lawyers "didn’t seem to respect that I could do this," Scharfeld said. “We won all the claims and defeated those against us.”
James Weinberger, the lawyer for Trump in the iTrump case, declined to comment.

Nothing on Richmond's vaunted Monument Ave. compares to Saint-Gaudens' Sherman on Grand Army Plaza, re-gilded in the 80s by Donald J. Trump. pic.twitter.com/oRUR7EhX5U

— BANDZ STACKHAGE (@NickPinkerton) August 17, 2017

they damage Trump in that they force colleagues/officials/commentators etc to distance themselves from him making him more isolated, but do they play badly with voters?

There's a substantial minority of Trump voters who will be slightly dismayed by his clumsily cloaked support for white supremacists and KKK-types, but I expect only a few of them will see it as "the straw that broke the camel's back", so that they feel they must now reject him and his presidency as racist and unacceptable. But every one of these wretched events sees some more of his backers dropping away.

He doesn't seem to ever do anything that attracts new supporters. He mostly seems to alienate them a few at a time, week after week.

just like banks!

He doesn't seem to ever do anything that attracts new supporters. He mostly seems to alienate them a few at a time, week after week.

― A is for (Aimless), Friday, August 18, 2017 4:57 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yea this is important & otm

Kinda like Morrissey

they certainly both have Opinions on china

Hi everyone I've thought about this....
In hate to say it but I'm gonna say "dud."

fp

Sorry but I just don't think he is a "cool guy" just being completely honest here

name three of his albums. i'll wait

Viva...ah I see what u doing

President Trump,
Ever since you became president, I had doubts about the future of this country.
Everyone in my family and among my friends told me that to serve on your council would legitimize a racist administration, but I wanted to influence the policy that your administration made, so I agreed to participate.
That was then; now I realize that no matter what I do, you will not change your ways, or listen to reason.
After these bewildering seven months, I realize that serving any further would only stain my own reputation, without achieving anything I hoped for, so I must resign my position.
Perhaps others will continue to support you and your pee tape ways; I wish you and them well.
Ever yours,

LOL!

pic.twitter.com/OhwS2MkCla

— Born Miserable (@bornmiserable) August 25, 2017

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/26/opinion/sunday/president-trump-and-the-baby-sitters-club.html?mcubz=3

a “child king,” a “self-pitying fool”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/26/opinion/sunday/trump-our-child-king.html?mcubz=3

He doesn't seem to ever do anything that attracts new supporters. He mostly seems to alienate them a few at a time, week after week.

And this is where things get really fucked because at some point he'll realize that being a war president is the only way to get those people back.

i just came across this gem on facebook. imagine the bar being set lower for any human being ever pic.twitter.com/fZU6Y28yo7

— Timothy Simons (@timothycsimons) August 29, 2017

jesus

Matt Damon throwaway answer on Trump is revealing. pic.twitter.com/d1THKaBH7k

— (((tedfrank))) (@tedfrank) September 1, 2017

That's some good shit

hoo ha!

As he puts on plastic gloves to serve food at NRG Stadium...President Trump turns to press and says: "My hands are too big!" pic.twitter.com/WIUTLOS4XD

— Pat Ward (@WardDPatrick) September 2, 2017

No!

If he serves a peach, you must impeach

Literally any other person this would be an endearing self deprecating thing but no... not here.

gotta admit i chuckled

hahahaha its almost like he's not an awful terrible destructive ignorant cunt

next to your deeper fears we stand surrounded by four maga years

#rosneftabout

make Antarctica green again?

Report from the ground. Holy shit people are going nuts right now ... huge line of people buying booze. Dude in the parking lot losing his shit about "n" word and more. I'm in a middle class suburb of NYC. People are going fucking bonkers. All I see is pure misery on the subway, dozens of depressed and dejected faces.

Hooray for the status quo, I guess. For anyone who thinks this is going to last, I've got another story to tell you.

Man, a few months ago I heard a kid say, "why does everyone look so sad?" For those who defend the status quo, how do you support this? Clinton is no different here in this.

[on the NYC subway]

If you're looking for a silver lining to the Trump phenomenon, this might be it. Our crazy president, if nothing else, has had a clarifying effect on American politics. He may make the Democratic Party desperate enough to return to power that it will actually have to start picking voters over donors when it comes time to choose which policy approaches to endorse. Which might mean embracing policies that would actually excite people for a change.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/taibbi-single-payer-effort-shows-life-post-trump-may-not-suck-w503498

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/03/mary-macleod-trump-donald-trump-mother-biography-mom-immigrant-scotland-215779

Many of the array of psychologists, psychiatrists and family therapists I talked to for this story have a question Mary Trump actually once asked herself, at a moment when she was feeling something less than pride in her celebrity son.

This was in 1990. Donald Trump was divorcing his first wife, philandering with the model Marla Maples and floundering in hundreds of millions of dollars in debt, facing high-profile humiliation and ruin in his early 40s. Mary Trump, on the other hand, was approaching 80. Once a poor immigrant from the remote, desolate northwest corner of Scotland, and the product of the strict mores of the country’s Presbyterian Church, she had been married to the business-centric Fred Trump for more than half a century, residing with him and their five children and their live-in in a large, red-brick, white-columned house positioned regally atop a grassy hill. She had worked tirelessly, volunteering at a local hospital, staying active at schools, charities and social clubs, and steering her rose-colored Rolls-Royce to the family’s outer-borough apartment buildings to collect coins from the laundry machines. She and her husband had sent their fourth and most incorrigible child, who as a boy threw cake at kids at parties and erasers at his teachers at his private elementary school, first to Sunday morning Bible classes, like his siblings—and then, unlike his siblings, to a stringent military academy an hour and a half upstate shortly after he turned 13. Now, in the twilight of her life, beset with debilitating bone loss, she was being sucked into his tawdry, nonstop soap opera, rendered a bit player in a media frenzy, captured by paparazzi while sitting in the rear of her chauffeured car, looking steely and peeved.

That year, according to Vanity Fair, Mary Trump asked Ivana Trump, her soon-to-be-ex-daughter-in-law, a pointed question. “What kind of son have I created?”

throwing cake and erasers

There will be courses in universities about this asshole for the next hundred years, assuming universities still exist.

Some people just turn out fuckin' wrong. Inexorably-broken and irredeemable because they see nothing problematic about their brokenness. Nothing but a sour and twisted mockery of humanity. You just hope people like that never get their hands on actual power, y'know?

they never understand their failure to love another is not the other’s failure

Some people just turn out fuckin' wrong. Inexorably-broken and irredeemable because they see nothing problematic about their brokenness. Nothing but a sour and twisted mockery of humanity. You just hope people like that never get their hands on actual power, y'know?

what is wrong with a nation that, even through the quirks of the electoral college, sees this man worthy of such power? how can so many people see this man and not be repulsed by him, not think him unworthy of even being elected dog-catcher?

because they're racist / sexist pieces of shit, and *hated* the black president and the thought of a chick in the white house even more than the sane among us are grossed out by destructive silver spoon slobs?

Imagine going all the way to Japan and eating a hamburger at a country club pic.twitter.com/thYetsb5K0

— Josh Billinson (@jbillinson) November 5, 2017

https://www.icij.org/investigations/paradise-papers/paradise-papers-exposes-donald-trump-russia-links-and-piggy-banks-of-the-wealthiest-1-percent/

the president will blow a gasket if there's no statement of exoneration by year's end

why not? he blows a gasket pretty often. several times a week afaics.

maybe he'll finally have a stroke and die

but then they probably still won't remove him from office

his higher brain functions died a long time ago

you don't have to live like a refu-jesus mr. potus

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/12/andrew-sullivan-america-is-trapped-in-trumps-delusions.html

i know photo editors can be pretty manipulative but doesn't it seem like trump's photographed facial expressions have become consistently like this in the past couple months, like he's straining under the desperate prevarication and fabrication as he senses no one around is even paying it lip service now?

Omg pic.twitter.com/k3wJ7y3ZsM

— Annie Shields (@anastasiakeeley) December 2, 2017

The parties that will be had when this fuck’s heart explodes

The thought of Trump's aorta popping from one too many Big Macs has an appealing vibe of self-correction by America's excesses.

(with all due respect to the millions of decent and enlightened people in the USA)

naw you're right we're trash

point

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/12/03/trump-suggests-investors-who-lost-on-false-flynn-report-by-abcs-ross-should-sue.html

counterpoint

https://www.cnbc.com/2016/12/22/lockheed-martin-shares-take-another-tumble-after-trump-tweet.html

The Republican Party can no longer claim to be the party of fiscal responsibility, strong foreign policy, or family values :(

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/trump-roy-moore-rex-tillerson-senate-tax-bill-everything-republicans-stood-for-a8091036.html

Fantastic technique. This is...freeze it here. Look at this: two hands, alpha scrunch, lapping away like a dang kitty cat. He's just having fun out there. pic.twitter.com/k2I0Zkouf3

— David Roth (@david_j_roth) December 18, 2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMufib-_gLs

"Impatience resulted in Trump’s orange-blond hair color."

She treated her father with a degree of detachment, even irony, going so far as to make fun of his comb-over to others. She often described the mechanics behind it to friends: an absolutely clean pate — a contained island after scalp-reduction ­surgery — surrounded by a furry circle of hair around the sides and front, from which all ends are drawn up to meet in the center and then swept back and secured by a stiffening spray. The color, she would point out to comical effect, was from a product called Just for Men — the longer it was left on, the darker it got.

I enjoyed that piece, and even went to preorder the book, but Wolff has a history of making up quotes and exaggerating, so I think I'll skip buying it. Honestly I don't care that much about Trump once he got into office - I want to read a whole book about election night, and the hours when Trump and everyone around him realized they were going to win.

wolff's history notwithstanding, 1/2 term's pretty blistering attack on bannon suggests 1/2 term thinks wolff's on the level. apparently wolff was the tom yeats to donald and melania's francis and claire underwood? who knows though -- he could even be in on it. 1/2 term has a new excuse now -- i didn't really want to win, so why would i conspire with russia?

lol "1/2 term"? is that the new "45"?

and that's a weak excuse, and we all know he absolutely did not expect or want to win the election

At Mar-a-Lago, just before the new year, a heavily made-up Trump failed to recognize a succession of old friends.

"Jokes on them--I don't have any friends!"

Maybe he didn't recognize them because they were all heavily made up?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CqqW4i5XYAEfCHh.jpg

"Rudy? GTFO, you're not Rudy!"

The monthly average of 171,000 jobs created in 2017 was the lowest average monthly job growth since 2010, when just 88,000 jobs were added per month.

Bannon described Trump as a simple machine. The On switch was full of flattery, the Off switch full of calumny. The flattery was dripping, slavish, cast in ultimate superlatives, and entirely disconnected from reality: so-and-so was the best, the most incredible, the ne plus ultra, the eternal. The calumny was angry, bitter, resentful, ever a casting out and closing of the iron door. [...] Bannon felt - perhaps with overconfidence - that Trump could easily be switched on and off.

So they were selling this book at Penn Station and — god I’m weak.

Previous presidents, and not just Clinton, have of course lacked scruples. What was, to many of the people who knew Trump well, much more confounding was that he had managed to win the election, and arrive at this ultimate accomplishment, wholly lacking what in some obvious sense must be the main requirement of the job, what neuroscientists would call executive function. He had somehow won the race for president, but his brain seemed incapable of performing what would be essential tasks in his new job. He had no ability to plan and organize and pay attention and switch focus; he had never been able to tailor his behavior to what the goals at hand reasonably required. On the most basic level, he simply could not link cause and effect.

god I’m weak

if you're experiencing buyer's remorse, sell it to a friend for 20% off retail. they'll tell you all the 'good' parts anyway.

"As [Trump] got back on Marine One to head to Andrews Air Force Base and on to JFK and then into Manhattan and Trump Tower, [after addressing the Charlottesville murder], his mood was dark and I-told-you-so. Privately, he kept trying to rationalize why someone would be a member of the KKK -- that is, they might not actually believe what the KKK believed, and the KKK probably does not believe what it used to believe, and, anyway, who really knows what the KKK believes now?"

Once, coming back on his plane with a billionaire friend who had brought along a foreign model, Trump, trying to move in on his friend’s date, urged a stop in Atlantic City. He would provide a tour of his casino. His friend assured the model that there was nothing to recommend Atlantic City. It was a place overrun
by white trash.

“What is this ‘white trash’?” asked the model.

“They’re people just like me,” said Trump, “only they’re poor.”

“You know when I was young. Of course I feel young — I feel like I was 30 . . . 35 . . . 39 . . . . Somebody said, Are you young? I said, I think I’m young. I was stopping in the final months of the campaign, four stops, five stops, seven stops — speeches, speeches in front of twenty-five, thirty thousand people . . . fifteen, nineteen thousand. I feel young — I think we’re all so young. When I was young we were always winning things in this country. We’d win with trade, we’d win with wars — at a certain age I remember hearing from one of my instructors, the United States has never lost a war. And then, after that, it’s like we haven’t won anything. You know the old expression, to the victor belongs the spoils? You remember I always say, keep the oil.”

“Who should keep the oil?” asked a bewildered CIA employee, leaning over to a colleague in the back of the room.

Ultimately Trump may not be that different in his fundamental solipsism from anyone of great wealth who has lived most of his life in a highly controlled environment. But one clear difference was that he had acquired almost no formal sort of social discipline — he could not even attempt to imitate decorum. He
could not really converse, for instance, not in the sense of sharing information, or of a balanced back-and-forth conversation. He neither particularly listened to what was said to him, nor particularly considered what he said in response (one reason he was so repetitive). Nor did he treat anyone with any sort of basic or reliable courtesy. If he wanted something, his focus might be sharp and attention lavish, but if someone wanted something from him, he tended to become irritable and quickly lost interest. He demanded you pay him attention, then decided you were weak for groveling. In a sense, he was like an instinctive, pampered, and hugely successful actor. Everybody was either a lackey who did his bidding or a high-ranking film functionary trying to coax out his attention and performance — and to do this without making him angry or petulant.

The payoff was his enthusiasm, quickness, spontaneity, and—if he departed for a moment from the nonstop focus on himself — an often incisive sense of the weaknesses of his opponents and a sense of their deepest desires. Politics was handicapped by incrementalism, of people knowing too much who were defeated by all the complexities and conflicting interests before they began. Trump, knowing little, might, Trumpers tried to believe, give a kooky new hope to the system.

1/2 term like totally used flynn as a primary russian go-between

A White House meeting that morning failed to convince Trump to fire Flynn. He was concerned about what it would look like to lose his National Security Advisor after just twenty-four days. And he was adamant about not wanting to blame Flynn for talking to the Russians, even about sanctions. In Trump’s view, condemning his adviser would connect him to a plot where there was no plot. His fury wasn’t directed toward Flynn but to the “incidental” wiretap that had surveilled him. Making clear his confidence in his adviser, Trump insisted that Flynn come to Monday’s lunch with the Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau.

just fuck the whole thing if this nominate Oprah thing gets any traction inside the DNC

i worked out how much it would cost, in 2021, to give every licensed american driver the equivalent of a 2004 pontiac G6 and it came to about 9.5 trillion

if you spread that out over two terms it's only about a trillion a year

but what would be truly extraordinary is the number of pontiac plants we'd have, and the sheer number of people required to work in them. we would be number one in pontiac plants per square mile and unemployment would probably be a thing of the past

Also, the taxes everyone would have to pay for getting free cars would pay for all sorts of other stuff! Downside: no one could sell their car, since everyone would have one already. The price we pay for the Pontiac Economy.

worth it imo

Some thought him dyslexic; certainly his comprehension was limited. Others concluded that he didn’t read because he just didn’t have to, and that in fact this was one of his key attributes as a populist. He was postliterate — total television. But not only didn’t he read, he didn’t listen. He preferred to be the person talking. And he trusted his own expertise — no matter how paltry or irrelevant — more than anyone else’s. What’s more, he had an extremely short attention span, even when he thought you were worthy of attention.

it's like an alfred jarry play come to life

“What is this ‘white trash’?” asked the model.

“They’re people just like me,” said Trump, “only they’re poor.”

I might have to call bullshit on this quote because it betrays a gift for brutally honest self-assessment that I can't believe Trump possesses.

that's a younger pre-senile 2scoops

He seemed to lack the ability to take in third-party information. Or maybe he lacked the interest; whichever, he seemed almost phobic about having formal demands on his attention. He stonewalled every written page and balked at every explanation. “He’s a guy who really hated school,” said Bannon. “And he’s not going to start liking it now.”

When Trump walked onto the field for the national anthem, he was greeted with a chorus of boos amidst scattered cheers, and struggled to remember the words to the Star-Spangled Banner he respects so much.

hooray

I totallt believe the “white trash” anecdote. Trump has always been aware that he wasn’t accepted by polite society. This is why he can convincingly (to some) rail against “elites” while being a billionaire. His brand isnas much about vulgarity as it is about glamour.

i hate his stupid fucking ugly face

it is so disgusting

Hater

he really epitomizes the old white politician “spoiled canned ham” ideal

you know what i find really helps is calling him donald butt instead of donald trump that way every time you talk about him you get to let ppl know that you think, that he is a butt

But my 6 year old would do that.

I tried just saying '45' but I couldn't keep doing it.

nicknames are silly imo. he's not the first bad president, you can just refer to him by name

Difference is, his name is a brand he licenses.

i believe 'donald butt' is a good compromise and will endorse this expression

donnie two scoops is still the best

no it's not, it's all stupid. playground nicknames? seriously? Trump is a virus & he's making everyone insane

ILM >>> ILE for maybe the first time since idk I first posted?

j/k i always preferred ilm ;)

I agree that he is a virus and he's making us all insane and we should just use his name, but also I have been calling farts "trumps" from the age of 5 because that's what they are called.

truly, we must treat Donald Trump with the dignity he deserves

finding the nicknames stupid has nothing to do with dignity

flappy bird otm. The cute albeit belittling nicknames make me cringe. It acknowledges this level of familiarity that I deeply wish I didn’t have.

This is a good use of our time

i usually call him "our president"

guys this is a stupid argument I didn't mean for it to be taken with deathly seriousness. glad to see everyone in usual formation, though

We need more discourse

when they invent the profanity strong enough to describe how i feel about president trump i'll use it. until then i'll stick with "president trump" or "the president of the united states".

yeah

I googled "Donald Butt" and was directed to a deviantart page that's mostly screencaps of Donald Duck's ass

<3

^said ass

when they invent the profanity strong enough to describe how i feel about president trump i'll use it. until then i'll stick with "president trump" or "the president of the united states".

we could spit on the ground like the romanians in that doubtlessly historically accurate snl sketch

Trump Diary- Eric pic.twitter.com/LDNzuEbkWr

— kyle Dunnigan (@kyledunnigan) January 20, 2018

scoops²

donnie two scoops isn’t a playground nickname. it’s a two bit gangster nickname, which is why it’s so appropriate.

and i usually don’t refer to him by anything except the president (i try to not use his name because of the unpleasant way it thuds into a conversation). but of all the nicknames out there (many of which are bad) the one that sounds like it would be hissed over an illegal card game is most fitting.

I am sad that there already are a bunch of Donald Dumptrucks out there.

dud

i call him "2 scoops". game of cards indeed. fuck the trumps -- granddad ran a brothel, dad was arrested at a KKK rally (and not for protesting!), 2 scoops and 2 scoops senior were fined for racist housing policy, and the guy inherited $200,000,000 but talks like a drunk bigot even though he's sober and "president". and that's his appeal!

It's funny to remember that people on this board used to make fun of dr morbius for saying like "shillary clintDUMB" and now everybody does that shit

You forgot his kids, qualms. Anybody follow the blow-up over Ivanka having Jose Andres kicked out of a restaurant this weekend?

fuck the trumps

Tiffany's okay

Oh well here’s the latest. Fucking Georgetown

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/01/28/politics/jose-andres-ivanka-trump-cafe-milano/index.html

(cafe milano is apparently a well known safe space for Republicans in DC)

Tiffany's okay

second-least-worst behind barron maybe but i dunno if i'd stretch to 'okay'

2 scoops junior and i'm eric will take lil' barron elephant trunk hunting soon enough, america. rest assured :)

Jose Andres is a mf'ing treasure.

xp yeah the odds are not great on Barron shaking out to be a decent human being. That's a pretty rough lineage, he'd have to be radicalized out of it.

where's the symbionese liberation army when you need 'em

I believe in Barron. He doesn’t seem that “into” being a Trump and is much closer to his mom than his dad by all reports.

^barron knight

one of my closest friends for many years was the daughter of a well-connected senior republican politician and she disagreed with just about every single thing he did so

used to make fun of dr morbius for saying like

we always knew he was deranged, now we're just seeing when everyone loses their collective good sense under the pressure of political frustration

i for one am keenly anticipating the reign of the boy-king barron from 2019-apocalypse (exact date tbc)

I have probably said this before, but my childhood was replete with political spawn. Strom Thurmond's daughter was a classmate of mine, the Cheney girls were schoolmates, we were distantly aware of Tucker Quayle and the Scalia kids, yadda yadda.

Personally I would rather not speculate on them until they actually enter the arena of their own volition (as the Cheneys did and as Ivanka has done).

I believe in Barron. He doesn’t seem that “into” being a Trump and is much closer to his mom than his dad by all reports.
― treeship 2, Monday, January 29, 2018 9:49 AM (forty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I remain confused about this characterization of Melania Trump—that she's some beacon of goodness, must surely be decent because her husband is such an ogre. Is there something about her that leads people to believe this? She seems terrible.

i suspect it's because melania cuts a pretty depressed figure as first lady, so she looks like we feel

mind you she married trump in the first place so i dunno how much sympathy she deserves

Maybe she's depressed because her values are fucked up and she made some terrible choices in life. Fuck her for being complicit.

I've never understood the logic either. She could divorce him and upend his whole shit if she wanted to and she'd have a ton of support from all kinds of corners, but there's no real indication she actually wants to mess with anything. xp

Like, you don't have to marry the American because he has a helicopter. It's not like he rescued her from some miserable life.

it mainly strikes me as another hopeful but baseless fantasy of #resistance that people cling to tbh, unless there's some actual substantive statements of hers I've missed

honoring trump with any kind of nickname is ridiculous, you're just entering into his own game. it's silly but it's also exactly what he loves doing with anyone he doesn't like

You guys should read this important piece from the progressive newspaper called the New York Times: The Quiet Radicalism of Melania Trump

the resistance is coming from inside the white house: the first term of melania trump

She is terrible. I don’t know how anyone could spend time with trump and then marry him. Fucking gross.

The reason a lot of people try to spin her as a good person trapped in a hellhole is because the reality of trump is so far apart from our own lives that they resemble tv show characters more than real people. A tv show needs at least one sympathetic character for the audience to identify with, somewhere, and she’s the least worst option.

lord almighty that ny times piece

the quiet radicalism of doing absolutely nothing

makes u think

xpost lol yeah I read yet the other day. Classic clickbait title! She is a radical because she hates her husband so much and refuses to use her position to help people or take up some sort of cause that she believes in.

none of the trumps are worth a shit. people are making the mistake of thinking that because maybe the trump marriage isn't great, that means she actually gives a fuck about the people his policies are affecting. i would say the chances of that are pretty low.

She sees the opportunity as First Lady to try to make sure that at least ONE good thing happen during her family’s time in power, and she radically says “no”

She seems acquiescent, definitely. Complicit, maybe. Is that the same as terrible? I don't know.

In any case it is like fifty-seventh on my list of priorities right now. Is M. a basically passive person who thought she was signing up for luxury and ease, but got accidentally thrust into a media maelstrom because of her new husband's toxic cocktail of id, greed, and ambition? Or is she Lady MacTrump, urging him on to greater heights of monstrousness? Or somewhere in between?

Don't know, don't really care; I'm much more alarmed by the Trumpoid march through the agencies, like HHS sidelining women's health and refugee issues to focus on "religious liberty." With the Department of the Interior headed by an oil pipeline executive and an oil industry CEO as Secretary of State, how long until Federal employees' adherence to environmentalist causes becomes a disqualifying factor?

I know that people can walk and chew gum at the same time: we can oppose the president's horrible policies AND still find time to mock his tacky-ass household furnishings. But jeez, do we need to pick on the 10-year-old?

it's like when people creepily idealize Ivanka, gee i wonder why. anyway they're all terrible.

The nation was torn, the democracy imperiled, but she stepped bravely to the fore and presented a line of caviar-based skincare products.

she (melania) supported the birther campaign in the press too. vile

Is there a version of the Darwin awards for people who don't die but rather willfully maneuver themselves into a personal hell and then inexplicably choose to remain there? Because Melania would be a recipient of that award. Yes, I'm sure your life sucks. What exactly did you expect when you married and had the child of someone who has never hidden the fact that he's an irredeemably-awful person?

Wealth without responsibility

The life of almost all other wealthy people

The Pete Rose Prize

who gives a shit about the kids or anyone else not in a position of power in the trump admin. ivanka is the only one with any kind of power

flappy otm

I don't know, the sons may be chumps but they have business interests that certainly impact the president's decision making. It's a kind of power in the administration that's worthy of concern.

Eric might be more pleasant if they finally remove the multiple fecaliths from intestine

I don't know, the sons may be chumps but they have business interests that certainly impact the president's decision making. It's a kind of power in the administration that's worthy of concern.

― Pumpkin Soup and Mandy Patinkin (Hadrian VIII), Monday, January 29, 2018 11:27 AM (twenty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sure, maybe the sons. don jr. is involved in the mueller probe in a big way. but they're effectively sidelined, by all accounts not doing much & by many accounts trump doesn't think much of them ("they were in the back of the room when god was giving out brains")

Here’s an anecdote from Tina Brown’s Vanity Fair Diaries about Trump pouring a glass of wine down Marie Brenner’s back as revenge for a bad story and slinking away pic.twitter.com/Rfu1Ur1qM7

— Jia Tolentino (@jiatolentino) January 31, 2018

guessing no one watched it but Stormy Daniels on Kimmel last night was one of the weirdest interviews I've ever seen, she basically telegraphs up front "everything you read is true but I can't say a word about it"

she seems nice

sam rockwell to play her as female chuck barris

she seems nice

I met her once, about a decade ago, at a mutual friend's book party. She was professionally friendly. Nina Hartley was also there - she was genuinely nice.

guessing no one watched it but Stormy Daniels on Kimmel last night was one of the weirdest interviews I've ever seen, she basically telegraphs up front "everything you read is true but I can't say a word about it"

I watched some of it. The "you might think that, I couldn't possibly comment" about how the signature on her press-release denial of the affair not actually being hers meant that the denial was not to be believed was a curious opener, but she didn't seem bright enough to make dancing around not being able to say anything else actually fun or funny.

The only reason anyone wants to interview her right now is because of what she's not allowed to talk about, so the whole exercise is futile and stupid in a meta pomo way. Which I guess is appropriate for the current cultural moment?

this isn't 'new' anymore but it is very eye-opening

A new report from Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy analyzes news coverage of President Trump’s first 100 days in office.

The report is based on an analysis of news reports in the print editions of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post, the main newscasts of CBS, CNN, Fox News, and NBC, and three European news outlets (The UK’s Financial Times and BBC, and Germany’s ARD).

Findings include:

President Trump dominated media coverage in the outlets and programs analyzed, with Trump being the topic of 41 percent of all news stories—three times the amount of coverage received by previous presidents. He was also the featured speaker in nearly two-thirds of his coverage.
Republican voices accounted for 80 percent of what newsmakers said about the Trump presidency, compared to only 6 percent for Democrats and 3 percent for those involved in anti-Trump protests.
European reporters were more likely than American journalists to directly question Trump’s fitness for office.
Trump has received unsparing coverage for most weeks of his presidency, without a single major topic where Trump’s coverage, on balance, was more positive than negative, setting a new standard for unfavorable press coverage of a president.
Fox was the only news outlet in the study that came close to giving Trump positive coverage overall, however, there was variation in the tone of Fox’s coverage depending on the topic.

Worth another look: In the Company of Men.

"Now, he's a new...breed of fuck. Like a special strain of fucker. Oh, I hate that little prissy cocksucker."

President Trump dominated media coverage in the outlets and programs analyzed, with Trump being the topic of 41 percent of all news stories—three times the amount of coverage received by previous presidents.

That is an astonishing statistic

nsfw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHwOMWGAg_o

That is an astonishing statistic

Yes. True. But we are speaking of a man who comes from an entertainment industry background where the byword is that there is no such thing as bad publicity or too much publicity. He actively courts media coverage on an hourly basis, almost to the exclusion of all else, and because he is president, he gets that coverage.

So is that clip of his "hair" real or not? I don't know any more.

The concepts Reality and Truth are meaningless.

also Hair

we all died on december 21 2012 iirc

"I slept [with] you because I like you."

interception: "a low-rent racist, a shameless misogynist, and an unbalanced narcissist [. . .] an unrelenting liar and a two-bit white identity demagogue"

https://theintercept.com/2018/02/16/trump-russia-election-hacking-investigation/

Americans must live with the uncertainty of not knowing whether Trump has the best interests of the United States or those of Russia at heart.

"By the way, I try like hell to hide that bald spot, folks, I work hard at it," Trump tells CPAC -- rare moment of self-deprecating humor!

— Eliana Johnson (@elianayjohnson) February 23, 2018

Bald "spot?"

You mean, your head?

This really happened. pic.twitter.com/DxI1AQG0hs

— VICE News (@vicenews) February 23, 2018

no humanizing of unmitigated evil pls

oh it's inevitable

Scott Adams probably nutting his Dilbert-shaped boxers right now

can't wait for the polls in 2028 which show that trump's post-presidential approval rating climbing above 50%

if Yam had found himself in an active shooter situation in civilian life, with his security detail taken out, which of his loved ones would he NOT use as a human shield?

all too easy to visualize

he can always buy a new wife

get the grift while the grifting's good

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/23/rnc-paid-trump-campaign-trump-tower-rent-after-paying-legal-bills.html

LISTEN - This is what Michael Wolff was HEARING in his earpiece when he claimed he couldn’t hear my question on @TheTodayShow this morning. pic.twitter.com/dl3ZvQfKWm

— BenFordham (@BenFordham) February 26, 2018

Have we been talking abt the absolute shit show Michael Wolff's been having as of late? Kids from a Dutch tv show asked him critical questions, causing him to cancel all Dutch interviews that were planned.

that clip is beautiful

Wow. Clearly he heard him the entire time. You gotta practice that routine in the mirror a few before times before attempting it on live tv

i think we all owe mr. and mrs. trump an apology. all they ever wanted was to chain-migrate melania's parents from a former soviet bloc country. tax cuts

I meant this one:

In #CollegeTour stelt studente messcherpe vraag aan auteur van het boek 'Fire and Fury' Michael Wolff. Wolff suggereerde eerder in een interview dat president Trump een verhouding heeft met de Amerikaanse ambassadeur bij de Verenigde Naties Nikki Haley. pic.twitter.com/SITmJyK0fk

— twan huys (@twanhuijs) February 23, 2018

He got owned by a Dutch student lol

It's more of a self-own actually, ending with a "you played yourself" silence.

trump has only ever had the best interests of donald trump at heart
― albondigas con gas (bizarro gazzara), Friday, February 16, 2018 11:00 PM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Certain nations go out of their way to making certain individuals' personal interests rhyme with their own

Wolff fucked up as soon as he said "Nikki Haley embraced the rumors" gtfo dude. in fairness he never named anyone on Bill Maher, and by that point I had read most of the book and assumed he was talking about Hope Hicks, but when Haley preemptively defended herself Wolff should've just stuck with "I didn't name anyone and Nikki Haley is offering a defense for something I did not accuse her of."

but really it was reckless to bring it up in the first place on Maher's show. it's not as if Wolff needed to goose sales

Wolff being sketchy as fuck doesn't exonerate Trump. But Wolff can go away any time now thx.

yea obviously, just bummed Wolff compounded already significant doubts re: his credibility as a journalist

He's always been a con artist as far as I can tell

Wolff being sketchy as fuck doesn't exonerate Trump

I don't think anyone (here) is arguing this

I certainly wasn't.

No, no one here. But you can be damn sure that Wolff's slipups will be madly spun on fox - beetblort - dextrosphere.

Not much you can do about the chuds.

yes there is, you don't have to give them free ammunition.

This line of attack was inevitable as soon as Wolff got involved. And it's not like the likes of fuckin Breitbart need to wait around for legitimate grievances to fire those shots.

true but this stuff has gotten him scrubbed from MSNBC and other liberal arenas where he was a sought after guest in january

I think he probably outlived his usefulness on this subject a while ago tbh

i keep waiting for someone that has that kind of venue to call his "plan" out as straight up moronic, ill informed and dangerous to his face and i guess this is as close as were going to get.

lol that was supposed to be in the other thread

back on topic: Trump dissing the officers that didn't go into the school in Florida during the shooting, and then saying he would've gone in "without a weapon" = classic

that is inarguably hilarious, sorry everyone

Trump couldn't even act superior around Obama IRL, he was shook every time he stood near him. our president is an internet tough guy.

cadet bone spurs to the rescue!

In a 2008 interview with Howard Stern, Trump told the shock jock that he turned away from an injured elderly man who had fallen off the stage at a Mar-a-Lago benefit because he couldn’t stomach the sight of blood.

“This guy falls off right on his face, hits his head, and I thought he died,” Trump told Stern. “And you know what I did? I said, ‘Oh, my God, that’s disgusting,’ and I turned away. I couldn’t, you know, he was right in front of me and I turned away. I didn’t want to touch him.”

our president is an internet tough guy.

otm (which autocorrects to "porn" on my phone)

Die Hard VI: President Screaming Meemie

https://images.newrepublic.com/2a1fc72d33729a106b3e794d3102b0da81dcaea7.jpeg?w=1000&q=65&dpi=1&fm=pjpg&fit=crop&crop=faces&h=667

even now, that slouchy, arms-crossed look he seems to fall into now every time he's in a meeting is just textbook weak posture. like he's not even interested in playing the part anymore.

https://d2ffutrenqvap3.cloudfront.net/items/3w1R3H0q3w2y1M410s1T/throwing%20shade.jpg

Fire & fury was hilarious and I enjoyed reading it but it shouldn’t be a surprise that Michael Wolff is a liar. I don’t think pointing this out helps Trump either. It’s not like Wolff was his only critic or anything.

Xp

still, the fact that there have been practically no specific denials of stuff in the book kinda leads me to believe that a lot of it is basically accurate

treeship otm

dud

starting to come around to that point of view myself

lol trump's umbrella is the perfect size to protect both of them too

the umbrella of a man who would rush a school shooter unarmed

weird that a republican president would keep for himself something that would be of benefit to others if only it was shared

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mueller-and-trump-born-to-wealth-raised-to-lead-then-sharply-different-choices/2018/02/22/ad50b7bc-0a99-11e8-8b0d-891602206fb7_story.html

This piece is really something

Donald Trump grew up in a 23-room manse in Queens, a faux Southern plantation house with a Cadillac limousine in the driveway. He attended private school from kindergarten on; his focus in school, Trump told The Washington Post in 2016, was “creating mischief, because, for some reason, I liked to stir things up and I liked to test people. . . . It wasn’t malicious so much as it was aggressive.”

In second grade, he said, he punched his music teacher in the face. He got into trouble often. Before eighth grade started, his father sent him to military school.

At New York Military Academy, where the rules were so strictly enforced that a desperate cadet was said to have leaped into the Hudson River in an attempted escape, Trump thrived. Although he ate in a mess hall instead of being served steaks by the family cook, and although he slept in a barracks rather than his own room in a mansion, he for the first time took pride in his grades. He won medals for neatness and order. He also won notice from fellow cadets for touting his father’s wealth and boasting to friends that “I’m going to be famous one day.”

Trump competed to become a cadet leader and enjoyed wielding authority. As a junior supply sergeant in E Company, he ordered that a cadet be struck on the backside as punishment for breaking formation. Another time, while inspecting dorm rooms, Trump saw cadet Ted Levine’s unmade bed and blew up, ripping off the sheets and tossing them on the floor, Levine said. Levine threw a combat boot at Trump and hit him with a broomstick. Trump, infuriated, grabbed Levine and tried to push him out a second-story window, Levine said.

Promoted to captain of A Company, Trump won respect from some of the other boys, who said they never wanted to disappoint him. Trump introduced them to a world of fun, setting up a tanning salon in his dorm room, bringing beautiful women to campus and leading the baseball team to victory.

But other cadets said Trump tried to break boys who didn’t bend to his will. During Trump’s senior year, when one of his sergeants shoved a new cadet against a wall for not standing at attention quickly enough, Trump was relieved of his duty in the barracks, said Lee Ains, the student who was shoved.

Trump denied being demoted, saying he was actually moved up. “You don’t get elevated if you partake in hazing,” he told The Post in 2016. He was put in charge of a drill team that would perform in New York City’s Columbus Day Parade.

medals for neatness and order

"setting up a tanning salon in his dorm room"

ted levine from monk?!

different one seems like

https://phys.org/news/2018-02-reactions-odor-reveal-political-attitudes.html

A scale was developed for the participants to rate their levels of disgust for body odours, both their own and others. The scale was used in a large-scale survey administered online in different countries, together with questions regarding political views. In the U.S., questions about how they planned to vote in the presidential race in 2016 were included. "It showed that people who were more disgusted by smells were also more likely to vote for Donald Trump than those who were less sensitive. We thought that was interesting, because Donald Trump talks frequently about how different people disgust him. He thinks that women are disgusting and that immigrants spread disease, and it comes up often in his rhetoric. It fits with our hypothesis that his supporters would be more easily disgusted themselves," says Jonas Olofsson.

of course they say you can never really smell yourself like someone else can

he who smelt it dealt it iirc

reach down, between my legs, ease the seat back

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-panama/u-s-lawmakers-question-trump-ties-to-panama-project-idUSKCN1GD5B4

pic.twitter.com/9ckFJNYWJv

— mark (@kept_simple) March 14, 2018

lol

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DYR9iowU0AEaqBV.jpg

wow

i feel so handsome rn

Who do we want to rule

Also there is a whole light setup reflected in the mirror so apparently the photographer gave up

Doctored according to Snopes, although the real photo isn't much better.

https://us-east-1.tchyn.io/snopes-production/uploads/2017/07/spot-the-difference.jpg

Also there is a glass behind ivanka in the 4-shot

And a cable coming out of her head

Of course it's doctored. The only real surprise is how very little it's actually doctored.

Fake news!

this is how don, jr. and vanessa trump met https://t.co/6W2FfsVBQW pic.twitter.com/I0Mo2vveYu

— Kenzie Bryant (@kenzbry) February 8, 2018

that's love

Lol cuet

Trump is such a dad

speaking as a dad, them’s fightin’ words

so basically his dad hooked him up ...

"Hi I'm Donald Trump, I wanted to introduce you to my son, Donald Trump, Jr."

So Don Jr. met his wife basically because his dad kept homing in on her as an anonymous piece of ass. Something to share with the grandkids, I suppose. And absolutely the hallmark of a family one wants to marry into.

I know this is trivial and petty but Eric clearly can't NOT do lampreyface. Even in a situation where he knows he's being photographed and it might be advisable to look unlampreylike.

http://images5.fanpop.com/image/photos/29800000/The-Master-the-master-buffy-the-vampire-slayer-29898313-400-300.jpg

eric always looks like he's cosplaying flukeman from the x-files

Yes, lamprey/Flukeman. That is exactly the apt comparison which was just eluding my grasp. I was only able to get this close on my own:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b4/b8/91/b4b891c897c17db610a91fbf6997268f.gif

Of course it's doctored. The only real surprise is how very little it's actually doctored.

Which one is the doctored one? That is, which is the before and which is the after?

also: nemesis from resident evil

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/villains/images/b/b7/Nemesisrl.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20100410001021

How they probably see themselves:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DTSPkXrW4AEiuZW.jpg

http://www.taxhistory.org/www/website.nsf/web/presidentialtaxreturns

Right, so why are you asking whether it's a legal requirement?

he'll share them with investigators when he's forced to do so. he may have already done that. the public will see them later on. he's not going to release them unilaterally

xpost

i think it's classic that he's on that website with those other public figures. go trump!

Does he need to share returns? Can't Mueller (or wouldn't he have already) get warrant to take them directly from IRS? Not sure how that works

he promised he'd release his tax returns. maybe we don't deserve to see them? or he's just waiting till the time is right during the case, to prove to everyone what a big strong billionaire he is, who doesn't need any help from the kremlin?

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-opening-argument-in-the-trial-of-donald-j-trump

you know i do lampreyface in every single photo that's ever taken of me

this is also why i avoid being photographed

mr. trump is a civil rights activist, bringing porn stars to network television, when before the *fake news* shunned the poor stormy danielses of the world. #WWFWCWMRGA nikolai volkoff the iron shiek

mr. trump is a genius, banging a porn star and then rubbing christian evangelicals' noses in it. MAGA!

https://www.thecut.com/2018/03/stormy-danielss-60-minutes-interview-was-actually-brilliant.html

[ The conversation] started off all about him just talking about himself: And he’s like, ‘Have you seen my new magazine?’ … And so I was like, “Does this normally work for you? … does just … talking about yourself normally work? … Someone should take that magazine and spank you with it. … And I’ll never forget the look on his face … I was like, ‘turn around, drop ‘em.’ … I just gave him a couple swats. and from that moment on, he was a completely different person. He quit talking about himself and he asked me things … it just became … more appropriate.

According to this, Daniels was able to achieve the impossible: she broke through Trump’s delusional solipsism, literally slapping him into awareness of another person. And she did it by refusing to play along with his self-vaunting monologue. By questioning the effectiveness of Trump’s boasting, she stopped it. We can all learn from this.

We can all learn from this.

OK. I'd be more than willing to swat him a few times.

OK. I'd be more than willing to swat him a few times.

Me, too, but with a pool ball in a sock, or a lock on a chain.

god how is this motherfucker the president of anything let alone of AMERICA

I mean where else

j and flappy win, lol. (but everyone else...sorrrrry).

Trump has like four Kuatos growing out of his midsection and they all look like Lou Dobbs. pic.twitter.com/O8kvZcX2An

— David Roth (@david_j_roth) April 9, 2018

Cohen: Boy, I now wish Trump had not won the election.

Flynn: My life would be a lot better if Trump actually lost the election.

Manafort: I know I wanted Trump to win the election, but now I truly wish that he hadn't.

Ivanka: Gosh, maybe daddy winning the election was not a good thing after all.

Jared: My F-I-L winning the election has been a 666 type of hell for me.

Don Jr: I hate the fact that my dad won the election. This sucks ass.

Eric: I'm Eric.

Melania: My life would have sucked with him either winning or losing the election, so I don't give a fuck.

RNC: Trump is bringing our whole party down with him. It was so much easier being the party of 'NO'.

Trump: I'm so glad I won the election. Best thing ever. GOP! GOP!!

Eric: I'm Eric.

LOL

RNC: Trump is bringing our whole party down with him. It was so much easier being the party of 'NO'.

Beyond the torrent of heels taking early retirement, do we think this is the GOP's take on Trump?

Trump sucks!

which pink floyd album is this pic.twitter.com/a0uQx6rsNp

— Hunter Lurie (@hunterlurie) April 23, 2018

Dud

total dud

this was circumscribed in one of the many other threads but I'm putting here regardless

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/04/shania-twain-and-the-crisis-of-american-democracy-really.html
http://www.asanet.org/sites/default/files/attach/journals/feb18asrfeature.pdf

When the political system is widely seen as doing its job, somebody like Trump, who violates its basic norms, is seen as illegitimate. A politician who blatantly lies doesn’t stand a chance. But this changes when more and more people come to believe that the system is rigged and that most politicians don’t have their best interests in mind. Amid such a “crisis of legitimacy,” voters don’t particularly care whether a politician plays by the rules of the game. Instead, they long for somebody who bluntly states how rotten the system really is.

some other bullshit follows, and mostly it boils down to humans are pack animals, and never forget it or you'll pay. but there is a situation where we aren't quite so bad: when we work together. which is the other thing pack animals do well.

The argument that Trump won because enough people believe that the system is rigged falls down on one point: Everyone hated Hillary Clinton for doing the exact same thing. So, what, Democratic voters don't think the system is rigged?

The thing is, of course, that Trump voters do think the system is rigged, but in a very specific way: It helps black people, which is not what it is supposed to do. That is the way in which it isn't doing it's job.

Read the article, Fred

my man with a combover so notorious it'll be the "benedict arnold" to julius' "caesar cut" . . . joked about the president of france having dandruff. go 2scoops!

lmao that picture definitely has a "late period hipgnosis" look

the most and the best court-appointed Special Masters to sift through a president's personal attorney's seized documents for client privilege in american history, folks. electoral college. #MAGA

presiding over the end of the korean war: classic?

i mean it seems like it's all theater and the north will invade the south in 3 months or something but this will still be perceived as classic rather than dud by trump supporters and ken bone types

if the peace lasts long enough for a nobel prize to be handed out, the next trump narrative will be how unfairly he was treated by not being given the prize. 'obama got the nobel prize for nothing and i was treated so unfairly wah wah wah', etc

mega dud

well if north korea reunites with south korea then south korea will no longer be the cosmetic surgery capital of the world. #MAGA

WATCH: During an event with Team USA Olympians and Paralympians at the White House, President Trump said, "What happened with the Paralympics was so incredible and so inspiring to me. And I watched — it's a little tough to watch too much, but I watched as much as I could." pic.twitter.com/geYUUu9vmg

— PBS NewsHour (@NewsHour) April 27, 2018

I bet he thinks that's empathetic.

I think he's just saying that it's difficult for him to spend an extended period of time focused on people who aren't named Donald Trump or at least talking about Donald Trump. The Paralympians are inspiring, but I think they'd be even moreso if they wore t-shirts with Donald Trump's face on them and chanted 'Donald Trump! Donald Trump!' while they're engaged in whatever non-Donald Trump-related activity they're engaging in.

^ gets it

This guy is a real dud

at least he was honest there.

i'm beginning to regret voting for him

OTM. I suspect that it was a bad choice, and I'm very nearly sorry that I made it. Although I'll probably do it again, because reasons.

lots of people are saying mr. trump hired as the heavy to go threaten stephanie clifford and her daughter . . . none other than michael avanetti in a frightwig . . . which instead lead to some stormy love

Frank Rich on how the same NYC "elites" empowered Roy Cohn and Trump:

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/04/frank-rich-roy-cohn-the-original-donald-trump.html

(Incidentally a reminder to spit on Baba Wawa's grave when she finally croaks.)

that's a great article notwithstanding the fact that Frank Rich is 100% NYC elite.

Not the kind that can arrange sweetheart real estate deals.

When I posted that on Facebroke, it asked, "Does this post contain hate speech?"

I got the same question when I posted that awesome Talmud excerpt from the Masculinity thread

I saw the hate speech question all over my kid's elementary school pta Facebook page anout an hour ago. I think it's just something they're doing today.

Please tell me this is the extent of Facebook's efforts to monitor for hate speech. It's like a manager who just stays home and emails their employees every day with a 'are you working, y/n'.

if there's one thing facebook users are good at it's being able to know hate speech when they see it, and to consciously decide to take steps to stop spreading it

thanks facebook!

I clicked yes on every post just out of principle, suspect many others did the same

peacebook

re: barbara walters i always remember her interview with monica lewinsky, how prudish & nasty BW is, and at one point, completely incredulous, asks lewinsky: "why didn't you take this dress and send it to be dry cleaned?!"

Q: Which do you think is the most important part of the nuclear triad?

A: The destruction is very important to me.

gotta be the nuclear part

sheriff joe. scooter libby. who will mr. trump pardon next?

*whom

keep it together reg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CmGs9ixpNU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfMqgdOA5PM

happy cinco de mayo!

the president of the united states of america is so broke he can't afford to tell the truth

I think all Americans should support their president no matter what. It's like if I'm stranded in the desert and I get hungry, I suck it up and start eating fistfuls of sand even though it will almost certainly kill me. It's my duty. My responsibility. Amen.

Who is Donald Trump

http://www.gstatic.com/tv/thumb/movieposters/11442/p11442_p_v8_aa.jpg

This seems a little more pointed than not inviting someone to your dinner party.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/05/06/mccain-says-trump-should-skip-his-funeral-wants-pence-to-attend.html

The comments thread makes that more tolerable somehow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSH5bVVNYIo

https://www.buzzfeed.com/anthonycormier/trump-moscow-micheal-cohen-felix-sater-campaign?utm_term=.tdqVGmpgz#.eu8m3d4vq

still can't believe this guy is President

all you need is cuts
all you need is cuts
all you need are tax cuts
tax cuts are all you need

lmao at the imagery on this site

https://www.americanideahotels.com/

2scoops survived 'grab em by the pussy'; curious what info dump behind closed doors mr. putin told 2scoops his GRU commandos have to blow helsinki over too

A president who can’t separate his innocence from Russia’s, even after a year and a half in office — and who has to be implored to listen to his national security team and prepare for the next attack — is clearly unfit to protect the country.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/07/republican-congressmen-try-a-tv-intervention-with-trump-on-russia.html

"His interest in what we're doing is problematic, from my chair, and I would say in general the owners' chair," Jones said at Wednesday's news conference to open training camp in Oxnard, California. "It's unprecedented, if you really think about it. But like the very game itself, that's the way it is and we'll deal with it.

"We feel strongly about how we deal with it and we'll do so accordingly, but, yes, I, like everybody, would like for it to go away."

http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/24192764/dallas-cowboys-owner-jerry-jones-says-donald-trump-interest-anthem-issue-problematic

USFL!

ts: qualmsley nicknames in political threads vs morbs nicknames in political threads

morbs 1000%

dud

who would you rather have a beer with

who would you rather have a beer take prescription amphetamines with

Can I ask a question? I'm not having second thoughts about this post. How does Donald Trump shit?

sources say that he sits on the toilet from shortly after dinner until he goes to bed, watching tv the entire time

i just made up but you know it's true

How does Donald Trump shit?

According to Scott Adams, brilliantly and strategically.

through persuasion

He’s definitely a dud. That might be challops but I believe it.

just remembered this guy's views on exercise bahahahahaha

Be more hilarious if he had a HEART ATTACK and DIED

Feel like his followers would just scream WHERE'S THE DEATH CERTIFICATE

the trump deathers

elvis is still alive I hear.

given his diet, two dumps per week, tops

I assume some sort of viscous waste runoff is constantly oozing from his pores (as a result of a perma-logjam of steak briquettes in his colon).

"Must suck to get away with every lie in the world all your life... then get to the big show and realize that, eventually, you're going to pay for every lie you ever told."

i'm willing to revisit this question if he murder-suicides one of his piece of shit kids or son-in-law

just another queens boy gone wrong, a gentile bernie madoff with way wealthier folks, much less brainpower, and not nearly the head of hair

"Dr. Franklin was for retaining the clause [on impeachment], as favorable to the executive. History furnishes one example only of a first magistrate being formally brought to public justice. Every body cried out against this as unconstitutional. What was the practice before this, in cases where the chief magistrate rendered himself obnoxious? Why, recourse was had to assassination, in which he was not only deprived of his life, but of the opportunity of vindicating his character. It would be the best way, therefore, to provide in the Constitution for the regular punishment of the executive, where his misconduct should deserve it, and for his honorable acquittal, where he should be unjustly accused."

is 2scoops more jay gatsby or tom buchanan? is putin meyer wolfsheim? who's daisy? who's myrtle?

Donald Trump is the real Gatsby; the novel’s Gatsby is Trump through (circa 2016) Michael Cohen’s eyes

I meant nothing in particular by this remark, but it was taken up in an unexpected way.

“Civilization’s going to pieces,” broke out Tom violently. “I’ve gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things. Have you read ‘The Rise of the Colored Empires’ by this man Goddard?”

“Why, no,” I answered, rather surprised by his tone.

“Well, it’s a fine book, and everybody ought to read it. The idea is if we don’t look out the white race will be — will be utterly submerged. It’s all scientific stuff; it’s been proved.”

“Tom’s getting very profound,” said Daisy, with an expression of unthoughtful sadness. “He reads deep books with long words in them. What was that word we ——”

“Well, these books are all scientific,” insisted Tom, glancing at her impatiently. “This fellow has worked out the whole thing. It’s up to us, who are the dominant race, to watch out or these other races will have control of things.”

“We’ve got to beat them down,” whispered Daisy, winking ferociously toward the fervent sun.

“You ought to live in California —” began Miss Baker, but Tom interrupted her by shifting heavily in his chair.

“This idea is that we’re Nordics. I am, and you are, and you are, and ——” After an infinitesimal hesitation he included Daisy with a slight nod, and she winked at me again. “— And we’ve produced all the things that go to make civilization — oh, science and art, and all that. Do you see?”

Tom Buchanan = Steve Bannon, Daisy = The New Yorker Ideas Festival

The green light is Pepe.

RIP Alan Abel

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-owes-alan-abel-nine-hundred-dollars-567918

https://www.vox.com/2018/10/11/17963782/fox-news-trump-rallies-ratings-dropping :(